24 Quotes by Ethel Barrymore

[On Hollywood:] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.

You must learn, day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon.

Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I’m happy.

I never let them cough. They wouldn’t dare.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure – if you don’t like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don’t like it, you don’t understand and you ought to find out.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.